I was fortunate enough to have studied at Leeds University Dental Institute. For me, the most important lessons were in the ethics and principles of clinical practice. These foundations exist to protect the public and ensure that they can trust us to provide any necessary care.
So what in particular did I learn and what would have prevented me from being allowed to qualify and have a licence to practice?
I had to study physiology, anatomy and pathology in great detail and be continually tested on these subjects before moving on to practical surgical and technical skills. One of the key considerations I had to have in mind when making the transition from theory and applying this to practice was to understand that not all specifically diagnosed cases are the same and that the health status of a patient is never fixed. It can be ever-changing and dynamic, so a clinician needs to be reactive to this.
We were also taught about perspective when assessing a patient. I was once pulled up by the Professor in Radiology for dwelling too long on one particular area of a radiograph in my determination to reach a diagnosis. The valuable lesson was that by doing this, I risked finding artefacts and missing the bigger picture. When it comes to safety, airline pilots, sea vessel captains and motorists should know the perils of focusing too much in one area, especially in an emergency. For Covid the bigger picture includes the latest data that shows 99.9987% of the under 20s and 97.1% of the elderly survive Covid.
Examination questions were very often designed to see how well we could accommodate these variables in order to tailor-make individual treatment plans. The complete antithesis of providing safe, effective healthcare would have been to rush in and provide a blanket ‘one-size-fits-all’ treatment plan for every patient.
Not understanding and applying these principles would likely prevent you from qualifying as a dentist or a doctor.
Apart from individualising treatment and monitoring for beneficial and adverse effects, further prescribing principles focused on the following: patient safety, identifying the most vulnerable, informed consent and prescribing within the limitations of your knowledge, skill and experience.
So, in the context of Covid, how well – how correctly and ethically – have we applied these basic principles in tackling the disease?
Individualised, tailor made treatment plans – Recommended treatment (e.g. vaccination) does not appear to have accounted for the huge difference in Covid risk profile with respect to each person’s age and general health status.
Monitoring effects – Patients have not been provided with simple, recordable post-treatment assessment forms. For instance, surely it would have been simple enough to provide patient questionnaires to return on second or further booster visits to help monitor and evaluate the effectiveness and safety of an embryonic vaccination programme.
Informed consent – Patients have been denied a full range of possible treatment options through closing down any debate on focused protection as per the Great Barrington Declaration, improving lifestyle choices to fortify our immune systems naturally and blocking alternative drugs or pharmaceutical regimes that, evidence suggests, have proved so successful in India. Patients have been coerced into acceptance of a single treatment plan (i.e., vaccination) and have no choice but to be vaccinated when their freedom to access services or even employment is threatened without compliance.
Prescribing within the limitations of knowledge, skill and experience – Many issues are now coming to light with regard to the lockdown/vaccination strategy. For instance, the latest studies on how Covid vaccines affect blood clotting, heart muscle, the menstrual cycle and other sites or organ systems remote from the injection site which were, on roll-out, initially discounted.
In terms of safety, where has there been a consideration to pause or stop prescribing for the young, the fit and healthy, including athletes with extremely low Covid risk? There is no clear evidence that these asymptomatic subjects spread symptomatic disease to the vulnerable; the vaccinated elderly and vulnerable are protected from severe illness and it is virtually impossible to stop a virus from spreading in any case.
I’ll keep firing principles at you. The following are the five ‘rights’ that clinicians should aspire to achieving – the right patient, medication, dose, route and time. Lockdown and vaccination protocol has not reached out for these ‘rights’. In particular vaccination has been delivered indiscriminately and regardless of antibody status and evidence of pre-existing immunity and the dose and timing have been experimentally adjusted by mixing vaccines and shortening the booster intervals.
Finally, the pillars of medical ethics in the simplest terms:
- Autonomy – respecting the patient’s right to self determination;
- Duty to do good;
- Duty to not do bad;
- To treat all people equally and fairly.
I’ll let you consider whether those ethical pillars have been adhered to in the context of the backlog of non-Covid care (including cancer diagnosis, mental health, impact on education); the blanket medical treatment of low or near zero risk patients; the economic consequences that are eventually bound to impact mostly on the poorer in society; the blatant coercion and stigmatising of non-conforming or sceptical individuals; and the gross lack of a determination to record medically or publicise in the media adverse consequences of an experimental lockdown-and-vaccination strategy. It seems that all the above rules have been tramped on by a hypocritical political elite that parties-on whilst tired-out healthcare professionals wearily acquiesce.
It is only with Covid, it seems, that we have allowed the demolition of safe, ethical clinical practice.
Dr. Mark Shaw is a retired dentist.
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Perhaps the first thing we should do is to give Emily a dictionary (no pun intended…), to look up the meaning of ‘Genocide’. I’ve had enough of this shit of inflammatory terms being hijacked by damaged and vengeful people and applying them to honest people doing their best for society. Emily, if you have male genitalia, and think you are also a woman, then you appear to be uniquely able to follow my instruction. F*** yourself…
Yes, it’s literally mass murder.
Gas chamber? Machine gunning people trench in the woods? Tutsi vs Hutu with machetes? Cambodia’s killing fields? Soviet-led starvation of the holodomor? Mao’s great leap forwards?
Hyperbolic nonsense. Laugh this GUY out of here.
I think British Cycling have done pretty much the right thing, initially anyway. They might also like to change their statement about “sex assigned at birth” to say “sex observed and recorded at birth” as sex is not assigned, it’s determined at conception.
I hope the oddity mentioned by the Breeze ride organisers can also be sorted out, if it isn’t then this particular bit of madness is not yet dealt with.
Genocide – give me strength! Someone likes to be overly dramatic. It is a bit irksome to hear these whiney comments about genocide because certain people are being prevented from making use of an unfair advantage in competitive sports, or grown men with beards and dangly bits are being prevented from popping into changing rooms with teenage girls. It is even more irksome when remembering how those of us who made the very appropriate comparison between the coerced vaxxing (which is a damn sight closer to real genocide than being kept out of a cycling competition) and nazi Germany, kept getting told off for trivialising the Holocaust, when we only wished to point out the frightening road we, as a society, had embarked upon. Why are these people never called to task for their offensive trivilising of genuine genocide, something faced by the Yezidis not all that long ago.
If Ems finds British Cycling so flawed, why participate in it at all? Presumably Bridges felt BC was homophobic, bullying, etc. for some time, boycott it if it was so bad.
As for non-registered events – boycott and organise your own with a selected invitee list, it’s the only way this will stop.
Genocide – give me strength! Someone likes to be overly dramatic.
Didn’t you notice this yet? Just like calling every public display of an opposing political opinions a coup, the woketards always claim they’re a victim of genocide in case of any real world setback. The more intelligent ones do this a little more covertly, eg, all out attack on humankind instead of genocide but they don’t do it for less.
It takes part because this is the only way mediocrity can be rewarded. hence the shrill faux outrage.
Now THIS is belittling the holocaust.
I expect there will no outrage from the sanctimonious idiots who strung AB up.
For the benefit of the phantom downvoters, I’m referring to the word genocide being used to describe hurty-feelings. If AB is judged to have sinned, then so did “Emily”. But I think the latter was worse.
Do you want to comment downvoters, or just snipe from afar?
Oh dear, a mediocre cyclist who saw a chance of medals by tilting the playing field gets upset because someone got out a spirit level.
I have to give it its due, though, managing to tick so many boxes in one rant – racism, gender phobia, imaginary gender phobia, genocide, immigration – there may be others but I couldn’t stay the course.
Waahhhh! I can’t cheat anymore.
Now I’ll have to git-gud at my sport through hard work, diligent training and gumption. And all this with no guarantee that I’ll succeed in the end.
And THAT’S why we applaud successful athletes. Because it’s hard to win (unless you invite yourself into the women’s category which is cheating)
Has everyone forgotten the awful way the IOC treated Caster Semenya, only a few years ago? She was well-built and fast but absolutely all woman. She had to have a physical to prove she was a real woman. There were snide comments about her testosterone levels. I’m sure that was invasive and embarrassing for her.
Now a bloke just needs a certificate to ‘compete’ (ha!) against women.
He’s jostling for an Amnesty International humanitarian award.
These days you get a humanitarian award by accusing people of being evil. Pretty easy really.
Delusional
Let’s see. Eliminating two sexes essential for procreation and survival of the species – that’s genocide
Reinforcing the delusions of mentally disturbed people is unkind and can be dangerous.
Not my own work, but I like this….
Put 100 women and 10 men on a deserted island and in 100 years you will have a thriving community of men, women, boys and girls.
Put 100 Trans women and 10 men on a deserted island and in 100 years you will find the skeletons of 110 men.”
Those 10 men would likely have a wonderful time. Or else die from exhaustion through excessive snoo-snoo (thanks Futurama)
Motorcyclist who identifies as cyclist breaks world record.
https://youtu.be/ipvesqJP1e4
Norm Hiccup is an inspiration!
So brave. I want a T-shirt.
This is just some nonsense story designed to rouse your emotions. I would be sceptical of anyone who pushed such a stiry. I don;t care two hoots about transsexual cycle lanes. Just watch how you are manipulated.We have far bigger issues to condier.
The push of the transgender agenda is an aspect of the evil cabal’s plan. By eliminating women, they eliminate family & procreation & it also promotes that masculinity is not a good thing.
The subject is also useful to promote division as a divided society is a weakened society & easier to control.
They are fighting us on multiple fronts & it is important that we understand what they’re doing whilst not losing sight of the bigger picture.
This is from the American Medical Association, and check out the quote from the doctor. These people are a major part of the problem on the ground, just like they are/were regarding the scamdemic and death jabs. People like this doctor should have their license removed for spreading such garbage and holding these views. It’s precisely these sort of Leftie idiots that are totally fine with mutilating kids and young people’s bodies or putting them on puberty blockers, which do irreversible harm.
”Aimed at protecting individual privacy and preventing discrimination, the AMA will advocate for the removal of sex as a legal designation on the public portion of the birth certificate. Under the policy, information on an individual’s sex designation at birth would still be collected and submitted through the U.S. Standard Certificate of Live Birth form for medical, public health, and statistical use only. The new policy aligns with existing AMA policy recognizing that every individual has the right to determine their gender identity and sex designation on government documents.
“Designating sex on birth certificates as male or female, and making that information available on the public portion, perpetuates a view that sex designation is permanent and fails to recognize the medical spectrum of gender identity. This type of categorization system also risks stifling an individual’s self-expression and self-identification and contributes to marginalization and minoritization,” said AMA Board Chair-Elect Sandra Adamson Fryhofer, M.D.”
https://www.ama-assn.org/press-center/press-releases/ama-announced-policies-adopted-final-day-special-meeting
Here is an example of the irreversible damage messing about with your sex hormones will result in. I’ve read Elle’s story of why she transitioned to male ( no surgery though, thank goodness ) and then detransitioned back. She had a traumatic experience and was also very mixed up so thought she’d be better off as a guy. The problem is that when these people often seek therapy the therapist can make things worse and supports and encourages the wish to become the opposite sex rather than focus on the mental health issues staring them in the face.
https://twitter.com/TransJusticeOrg/status/1659260913873190913?cxt=HHwWgoDQkdLA8IYuAAAA
Communist society wreckers
I’m disappointed in you all. Have you no sympathy for the mentally ill?
She/he/it needs a slap to wake up
it’s not ok for any man to compete in women’s sports
Emily?
Surely the correct spelling of this bicyclist’s name is Emile…..
The deliberate destruction of female-only sports (girls are even more at risk than grown women) will only stop when ALL females refuse to participate in any sport at any level if biological males claiming to be women are allowed to compete with them.
One of the reasons I no longer subscribe to the DT is because they continue to use biologically incorrect pronouns when reporting on this kind of nonsense.
Up to now,I’ve always been against genocide – after reading his rant, I’m thinking of reconsidering.